Re: Status of IPython

[Stefan Reichör <xsteve@riic.at>]

Hi Marco!

> Hallo pythoners,
>
>       ipython is an enhanced interactive shell for python.
>
>       It is in Debian, but with a version lower that the current stable
>       one (we have 0.4, while the upstream has released 0.5 time
>       ago..). Also a emacs mode for ipython is available[1].
>
>       Actual mainteiner is unreachable, I mailed him several times, but
>       without success. I have prepared a package for version 0.5, and in
>       next days i am going to prepare the emacs-mode package also. I
>       think to upload them by the end of the week (most probably
>       friday).
>
>       Comments and suggestion are welcome.

I really like to see ipython0.5 in debian.

I also use ipython.el
AFAIK it needs a special patched python-mode.el

There is a request for inclusion of this patch in
http://sourceforge.net/projects/python. But it is not included yet.

-- 
  Stefan.